TAVISTOCK and District Conservation Project is launching an exciting new project with West Devon schools to create and improve wildlife areas in their grounds.

Tavistock Primary School (pictured left) is one of seven schools which will benefit during the first year of the project, which is funded through the National Lottery?s Social, Economic and Environmental Development Programme.

In all, the project will work with 14 schools in the area over the next two years.

Work has already begun at Tavistock Primary School to create a multi-sensory area in the school quad, a wild flower meadow and to restore the school pond.

TDCP hopes these improvements, along with the replanting of the herb and sundial gardens, will provide pupils, teachers and parents with an important educational resource.

Project manager Peter Kent said: ?We want to support West Devon schools in developing their wildlife and nature areas and increase local biodiversity by giving them a useful teaching resource.

?We will be providing training to teachers, children and parents so they can sustain their wildlife areas in the future.?

Other schools which will benefit from the new project in its first year include St Andrew?s Primary School in Buckland Monachorum, Milton Abbot School and Gulworthy Primary School.